The sun will go red giant when it expends most of it's fuel. The corona will expand out to about where Earth's orbit is now. The damn hippies will roast along with everybody else.
If this weren't April Fool's, I'd suggest that are are probably several parties that would cheerfully make the damage to your career worthwhile. As it is your normally suspect post is doubly dubious today.
A buddy of mine was partying with a young punk who knew absolutely nothing about drinking. They had a fifth of vodka and some Country Time to mix it with but no ice. The punk was too impatient to wait for the Country Time to chill in the fridge so my friend jokingly said, "There's some chocolate milk in here." "Well alright, I'll use that." replied the moron. "You don't understand, I'm just kidding.", said my friend. "I don't care, I just wanna get fucked up......Say! This stuff is pretty good!!!!" enthused the idiot. The dumbass puked all over himself twenty minutes later.
Even if you don't save to disk the RAM is in a measurably different state than if the download in question isn't stored in it. Binary state always translates to some form of physical state somewhere down the line. Those electrons removed from semiconductor junctions are a form of physical state.
I notice that controlling ALL PR about apps seems to be a common tactic employed by software houses. You can't benchmark Oracle and publish it without approval. You can't benchmark Microsoft's stuff either. Obviously, software houses do not want objective informed decisions being made about their products.
I have a way to deal with this tactic. The computing professional equivalents of Consumer Reports can automatically rate products with such licenses UNACCEPTABLE. If they don't want benchmarks published then let's assume they have something to hide. The reason for ratings can be explained with the further proviso that there is only one way to lose the rating.....waive the requirement and allow honest testing to proceed.
Laserbeam from the left, left, left, BLAM. Laserbeam from the right, right, right, BLAM.
Etc. Etc. Ad nauseating.
I just love the way they used one episode's worth of special effects footage over the entire series.I wonder if they'll reuse the 70s footage to save money? Sci-Fi recently ran a marathon of it but they added MST3K type captions to the bottom of the screen. It made the stinkbombs a lot of fun. For instance, Starbuck and Apollo are sitting around playing cards and smoking and the caption at the bottom says: "The Surgeon General Warning:Smoking is hazardous to your health."
I have hunch that the new series will just be more of the same old felgercarb.
This could be combined with an earlier poster's idea. Basically, one would set up a honeypot of UNSHARED mp3s on a server....these MP3s of course would be made from the server owner's collection.
Then the server owner in cahoots with a false client retains this guy's "services". The false client gives Powell the administrative keys to the honeypot which is being aggressively logged. Once Powell sends the nastygram, the server logs, and proof of ownership of all materials on it as well as anything the false client can provide is then handed to the nastiest meanest lawyer the server owner can find. The money to pursue this can come out of Powell's ass.
There isn't much difference between open source code and the scientific community. Actually, open source coders ARE part of computer science community.....the applied computer science portion. The submission of code, peer review, and continued use and development of what works are all scientific evolution at work. Come to think of it, an awful lot of this stuff is written by computer science students. As I have posted before, red baiting especially the red baiting of open source advocates should be an immediately losing debate tactic. It is just as inflammatory and as unenlightening as mentioning a certain group of Teutonic goose-steppers. I'll call it the Slashdot Corollary to Godwin's Law.
Come to think of it, just what is wrong with free base of applications and OSes? It seems to me that the bread and butter stuff of computing was figured out a long time ago and that one should have to offer something very compelling to justify charging money for it. At the very least, I envision open source projects defining the minimum criteria of usefulness for software. After all, something you pay money for should work better than the free stuff. Right?
Maybe that is what Microsoft is afraid of. They suspect that their stuff isn't up to snuff considering what they want to charge EVERYBODY (and I DO mean EVERYBODY as in EVERYBODY on the planet) for it.
I work in tech support for a school district. One of the psychologists told me that very few parents these days believe school personnel when their children are discipline problems. It's "You people are LYING! My LITTLE ANGEL never did anything. I going to SUE for making my little Sweetums leave the classroom." Parents want to use the net, videogames, school, and tv to babysit their kids for them. That's why we keep hearing this ridiculous censorship crap over and over again.
Yes, I absolutely blame lazy parents who can't even be bothered to raise their own children. It isn't videogames, it isn't the net, it isn't music, and it certainly isn't the tv. These problems we have thrown in our faces again and again by the media are the sole result of lazy self indulgent parents who refuse to take responsibility.
Most people here would agree that (takes deep breath) alluding to a certain charming political group from Germany in the '30s and early '40s is an IMMEDIATE loss of any argument. Apart from being on the political left I don't think the Communists were all that different from the carefully alluded to political party. (Sheesh but that Law is a landmine!!) I propose that red baiting should be an equally losing tactic. Stalin's Law anybody?
I've been wondering why processors and memory could have a fiber optic bus and a couple of electrical contacts for power. The processing and memory units would still be silicon or diamond for those of you that like to live on the bleeding edge. However, the disparate components on a mobo would talk to each other optically. I think especially of replacing the address and data buses with fibers. Instead of those thin copper traces running all over a board there would be all these ridges made of glass. Hell, if the manufacturing costs can be dealt with then external cache shouldn't even be needed as ALL of the memory can be run as fast as the CPU core. Just how hard can it be to embed a boatload of optical transcievers into modules and motherboards?
But proprietary hardware is enough of a problem as it is. This scheme would hand all of computing over to corporate greedheads lock, stock, and barrel. Now if anyone cand economically develop and create superfast FPGAs on the other hand.......
But I can listen or view it at least ONCE, right? Then who cares if "the entire universe" is protecting it. If I can view it then I can record it in some fashion. For a quantum physicist, this guy seems a little dumb.
The invoking of Hitler or Nazis is widely held to be an automatically losing move in a debate. I'm wondering if Red-baiting shouldn't be equally potent weapon for rhetorically shooting yourself in the foot. The only difference I can see is a leftward ideological skew for making differently flavored flamebait.
The dirtiest that they could actually GET AWAY with is a scary message along the lines of: "You have a corrupt partition on your disk that could compromise the normally high performance of Windows 2000. Shall I reclaim the damaged partition for Windows?" There are probably some other ways they can scare users like my Mom and my boss without actually sabotaging the Linux partition. If they actually did resort to direct sabotage RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake and most certainly IBM would dearly LOVE to catch them at it. I doubt that even Shrub could bail them out of that trouble.
What they COULD do is sabotage WINDOWS performance. It wouldn't be a big deal to have some code in there to make Windows crash and misbehave a lot more if an ext2 or reiser partition happens to be present. People like my boss and mom would definitely blame it on Linux. If Microsoft can manage a bit more cleverness than they used against DR-DOS they may even manage to make it look like LINUX is sabotaging THEM!
Fun as this is to rant about, I doubt Microsoft will leave smoking guns to be found in their code. I doubt the DMCA would prevent reverse engineering for purposes of legal discovery. IBM, at least, could afford the kind of legal talent to make that interpretation stick. They likewise have enough engineering talent to find crap like that quickly. And the motivation is there for serious payback.
Nope, I think Microsoft is going to use patents, lawyers and tons of FUD.
`I've been to a talk by J Allard (the head xbox guy), he claims that the system would only run
Microsoft-signed data on DVD-9 media, making it pretty damn difficult to hack it. He offered a job to anyone who could boot linux on it:)'
Surely they're not that stupid. Am I the only one who thinks that is waving a red flag in front of a bull? And it's a bull smart enough to ignore the flag and gore the smartass wearing the sequins.
LinuxPPC is more likely to be used by sysadmin type than a graphics geek. If a graphics geek DOES use it then it is probably as a fileserver. The Freenices, much as I like them, are still more feasible as industrial strength servers for the masses rather than magic multimedia boxes for the masses. If I had lots of Photoshop work to do, I would use MacOS. If I want to serve files to Macs and PCs with good performance and no additional license costs I'll use LinuxPPC or NetBSD. Ditto for any type of firewalling or web and ftp on the net.
It's a matter of using the right tool for the right job. MacOS for creative client uses and a Freenix for serving.
All this said, a little patience helps too. I use x86 Linux as a VERY comfortable desktop and didn't particularly mind some of the hoops I had to jump through to get there. But then....I'm a tech support geek.
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The sun will go red giant when it expends most of it's fuel. The corona will expand out to about where Earth's orbit is now. The damn hippies will roast along with everybody else.
If this weren't April Fool's, I'd suggest that are are probably several parties that would cheerfully make the damage to your career worthwhile. As it is your normally suspect post is doubly dubious today.
A product by that name is sold in the midwest. It's white bread comes in inch thick slices. You can make fantastic french toast with it.
A buddy of mine was partying with a young punk who knew absolutely nothing about drinking. They had a fifth of vodka and some Country Time to mix it with but no ice. The punk was too impatient to wait for the Country Time to chill in the fridge so my friend jokingly said, "There's some chocolate milk in here." "Well alright, I'll use that." replied the moron. "You don't understand, I'm just kidding.", said my friend. "I don't care, I just wanna get fucked up......Say! This stuff is pretty good!!!!" enthused the idiot. The dumbass puked all over himself twenty minutes later.
Those Japanese are out to pollute our precious bodily fluids. Mandrake, they'll stop at nothing until they have contaminated every last American...
Even if you don't save to disk the RAM is in a measurably different state than if the download in question isn't stored in it. Binary state always translates to some form of physical state somewhere down the line. Those electrons removed from semiconductor junctions are a form of physical state.
Debian PPC while they're at it....:-D
Only if they have been stoned and petrified first......
I notice that controlling ALL PR about apps seems to be a common tactic employed by software houses. You can't benchmark Oracle and publish it without approval. You can't benchmark Microsoft's stuff either. Obviously, software houses do not want objective informed decisions being made about their products.
I have a way to deal with this tactic. The computing professional equivalents of Consumer Reports can automatically rate products with such licenses UNACCEPTABLE. If they don't want benchmarks published then let's assume they have something to hide. The reason for ratings can be explained with the further proviso that there is only one way to lose the rating.....waive the requirement and allow honest testing to proceed.
Laserbeam from the left, left, left, BLAM. Laserbeam from the right, right, right, BLAM.
Etc. Etc. Ad nauseating.
I just love the way they used one episode's worth of special effects footage over the entire series.I wonder if they'll reuse the 70s footage to save money? Sci-Fi recently ran a marathon of it but they added MST3K type captions to the bottom of the screen. It made the stinkbombs a lot of fun. For instance, Starbuck and Apollo are sitting around playing cards and smoking and the caption at the bottom says: "The Surgeon General Warning:Smoking is hazardous to your health."
I have hunch that the new series will just be more of the same old felgercarb.
This could be combined with an earlier poster's idea. Basically, one would set up a honeypot of UNSHARED mp3s on a server....these MP3s of course would be made from the server owner's collection.
Then the server owner in cahoots with a false client retains this guy's "services". The false client gives Powell the administrative keys to the honeypot which is being aggressively logged. Once Powell sends the nastygram, the server logs, and proof of ownership of all materials on it as well as anything the false client can provide is then handed to the nastiest meanest lawyer the server owner can find. The money to pursue this can come out of Powell's ass.
There isn't much difference between open source code and the scientific community. Actually, open source coders ARE part of computer science community.....the applied computer science portion. The submission of code, peer review, and continued use and development of what works are all scientific evolution at work. Come to think of it, an awful lot of this stuff is written by computer science students. As I have posted before, red baiting especially the red baiting of open source advocates should be an immediately losing debate tactic. It is just as inflammatory and as unenlightening as mentioning a certain group of Teutonic goose-steppers. I'll call it the Slashdot Corollary to Godwin's Law.
Come to think of it, just what is wrong with free base of applications and OSes? It seems to me that the bread and butter stuff of computing was figured out a long time ago and that one should have to offer something very compelling to justify charging money for it. At the very least, I envision open source projects defining the minimum criteria of usefulness for software. After all, something you pay money for should work better than the free stuff. Right?
Maybe that is what Microsoft is afraid of. They suspect that their stuff isn't up to snuff considering what they want to charge EVERYBODY (and I DO mean EVERYBODY as in EVERYBODY on the planet) for it.
I work in tech support for a school district. One of the psychologists told me that very few parents these days believe school personnel when their children are discipline problems. It's "You people are LYING! My LITTLE ANGEL never did anything. I going to SUE for making my little Sweetums leave the classroom." Parents want to use the net, videogames, school, and tv to babysit their kids for them. That's why we keep hearing this ridiculous censorship crap over and over again.
Yes, I absolutely blame lazy parents who can't even be bothered to raise their own children. It isn't videogames, it isn't the net, it isn't music, and it certainly isn't the tv. These problems we have thrown in our faces again and again by the media are the sole result of lazy self indulgent parents who refuse to take responsibility.
Most people here would agree that (takes deep breath) alluding to a certain charming political group from Germany in the '30s and early '40s is an IMMEDIATE loss of any argument. Apart from being on the political left I don't think the Communists were all that different from the carefully alluded to political party. (Sheesh but that Law is a landmine!!) I propose that red baiting should be an equally losing tactic. Stalin's Law anybody?
...and he liked to say the f-word. He liked to say it a LOT......
I've been wondering why processors and memory could have a fiber optic bus and a couple of electrical contacts for power. The processing and memory units would still be silicon or diamond for those of you that like to live on the bleeding edge. However, the disparate components on a mobo would talk to each other optically. I think especially of replacing the address and data buses with fibers. Instead of those thin copper traces running all over a board there would be all these ridges made of glass. Hell, if the manufacturing costs can be dealt with then external cache shouldn't even be needed as ALL of the memory can be run as fast as the CPU core. Just how hard can it be to embed a boatload of optical transcievers into modules and motherboards?
But proprietary hardware is enough of a problem as it is. This scheme would hand all of computing over to corporate greedheads lock, stock, and barrel. Now if anyone cand economically develop and create superfast FPGAs on the other hand.......
But I can listen or view it at least ONCE, right? Then who cares if "the entire universe" is protecting it. If I can view it then I can record it in some fashion. For a quantum physicist, this guy seems a little dumb.
The invoking of Hitler or Nazis is widely held to be an automatically losing move in a debate. I'm wondering if Red-baiting shouldn't be equally potent weapon for rhetorically shooting yourself in the foot. The only difference I can see is a leftward ideological skew for making differently flavored flamebait.
The dirtiest that they could actually GET AWAY with is a scary message along the lines of: "You have a corrupt partition on your disk that could compromise the normally high performance of Windows 2000. Shall I reclaim the damaged partition for Windows?" There are probably some other ways they can scare users like my Mom and my boss without actually sabotaging the Linux partition. If they actually did resort to direct sabotage RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake and most certainly IBM would dearly LOVE to catch them at it. I doubt that even Shrub could bail them out of that trouble.
What they COULD do is sabotage WINDOWS performance. It wouldn't be a big deal to have some code in there to make Windows crash and misbehave a lot more if an ext2 or reiser partition happens to be present. People like my boss and mom would definitely blame it on Linux. If Microsoft can manage a bit more cleverness than they used against DR-DOS they may even manage to make it look like LINUX is sabotaging THEM!
Fun as this is to rant about, I doubt Microsoft will leave smoking guns to be found in their code. I doubt the DMCA would prevent reverse engineering for purposes of legal discovery. IBM, at least, could afford the kind of legal talent to make that interpretation stick. They likewise have enough engineering talent to find crap like that quickly. And the motivation is there for serious payback.
Nope, I think Microsoft is going to use patents, lawyers and tons of FUD.
Much as I hate to say this, MS has the minds of the managers, what Linux needs is...
Easy install and use by "normal" users that are ALREADY used to the MS way.
Nah, because your fellow Slashdot pundits will bitch that it "looks too much like Windows........"
There are BOATLOADS of machines I've installed Win95 on that use 34786-oem-0017312-99809 ;-)
`It's a stinking black box with a 100baseT port on the back.'
Did Microsoft buy Cobalt when we weren't looking?
`I've been to a talk by J Allard (the head xbox guy), he claims that the system would only run :)'
Microsoft-signed data on DVD-9 media, making it pretty damn difficult to hack it. He offered a job to anyone who could boot linux on it
Surely they're not that stupid. Am I the only one who thinks that is waving a red flag in front of a bull? And it's a bull smart enough to ignore the flag and gore the smartass wearing the sequins.
LinuxPPC is more likely to be used by sysadmin type than a graphics geek. If a graphics geek DOES use it then it is probably as a fileserver. The Freenices, much as I like them, are still more feasible as industrial strength servers for the masses rather than magic multimedia boxes for the masses. If I had lots of Photoshop work to do, I would use MacOS. If I want to serve files to Macs and PCs with good performance and no additional license costs I'll use LinuxPPC or NetBSD. Ditto for any type of firewalling or web and ftp on the net.
It's a matter of using the right tool for the right job. MacOS for creative client uses and a Freenix for serving.
All this said, a little patience helps too. I use x86 Linux as a VERY comfortable desktop and didn't particularly mind some of the hoops I had to jump through to get there. But then....I'm a tech support geek.